Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1264
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kotono Mitsuishi represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Kotono is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Kotono Mitsuishi appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kotono. Me & Roboco: The Movie is the clearest case: a film rated 8.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takafumi Ishida, Akitaro Daichi, Mitsuo Fukuda and others, Kotono Mitsuishi helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025) as Bondo's Mom (voice) · EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening (2026) as Misato Katsuragi (voice) · Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021) as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1264 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Average Nutevio score
7.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.7
Me & Roboco: The Movie
Most frequent director
Tomoya Takahashi
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Tomoya Takahashi
Most common genre
Animation
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.3
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
8.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
8.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.
Most productive era
2020s
14 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 8.01 film | — | 7.73 films |
| Action | 8.01 film | — | 7.59 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | 8.23 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Romance | — | — | 7.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Misato Katsuragi (voice).
Career peak
2021Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening
The current state of the argument, as Misato Katsuragi (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
16 of 16 films
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (voice)
Directed by Tomoya Takahashi
as Bondo's Mom (voice)
Directed by Akitaro Daichi
as Usagi Tsukino / Super Sailor Moon (voice)
Directed by Chiaki Kon
as Misato Katsuragi (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice) gives Kotono Mitsuishi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Performance score8.5
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bondo's Mom (voice)
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Performance score8.4
Me & Roboco: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bondo's Mom (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Usagi Tsukino / Super Sailor Moon (voice)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Performance score8.4
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Usagi Tsukino / Super Sailor Moon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
Start here. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 is the clearest statement of what Kotono Mitsuishi does — accessible, 80 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kotono at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
Same director as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 (2023)
Keeps the fantasy register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Me & Roboco: The Movie (2025)
Keeps the animation register of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
EVANGELION 30th Anniversary Special Screening (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Me & Roboco: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together
Notably Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Tomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together
Notably Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
Kazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Kobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together
Notably The Journey
Sunghoo Park
Director
1 film together
Notably Jujutsu Kaisen 0
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Director
1 film together
Notably Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Summer Special
Takumi Doyama
Director
1 film together
Notably Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky Utopia
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
Mitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together
Notably Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together
Notably Me & Roboco: The Movie
Takafumi Ishida
Director
1 film together
Notably Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Chiaki Kon
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director
2 films together · 7.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionTomoya Takahashi
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2Akitaro Daichi
Director
1 film together · 8.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me & Roboco: The MovieSunghoo Park
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jujutsu Kaisen 0Takafumi Ishida
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga ParadiseTakumi Doyama
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky UtopiaMitsuo Fukuda
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOMYuzuru Tachikawa
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Detective Conan: Black Iron SubmarineKobun Shizuno
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JourneyKazuaki Imai
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure IslandYoshinori Kobayashi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Summer SpecialSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Bondo's Mom (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Mei Mei (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Kotono Mitsuishi has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
29 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Me & Roboco: The Movie
as Bondo's Mom (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine
as Kir / Rena Mizunashi (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2
as Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jujutsu Kaisen 0
as Mei Mei (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise
as Tae Yamada (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Journey
as Hind Hiroshi (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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